Here's the changes made yesterday and today:

New features:
(20 Nov 2020)

• Added remaining attackers count for defenders.
  
• Added the possibility to kick enemy grenades away.
  
• Added single bullet reload animations for bolt action rifles.
  
• Added shooting range with weapon crates.

Fixes:
(19 Nov 2020)

• Fixed bug in squad GUI where sometimes objective icon was shaking.
  
• Improved radio communications in tanks.
  
• Improved running animations.
  
• Fixed a bug where sometimes move order wasn't working as intended.

(20 Nov 2020)

• Changed rotation behaviour while jumping.
  
• Fixed AI running toward tanks and moving them.
  
• Improved animations in bolt action rifles.
  
• Fixed stuck bug when proning on rocks.
  
• Fixed british helmet texture.

See the full roadmap here:
https://steamcommunity.com/app/1324780/discussions/0/2984159549083364752/

Marco

We are excited to announce our newest project!


A stimulating new puzzle game that we are releasing 15th January 2021!

Free-to-play just like Coloring Pixels, we know you'll be excited to give it a try!



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October 13th was a big day for us; as a team we have been working on this game for more than four years and have watched it steadily, and sometimes quite rapidly, grow and change as a product. We are proud of the game we have created as we know we have provided countless smiles and hours of entertainment for many of those who have wandered into the frontier.


Max toasts the launch of the game while preparing to eat alpaca butt.

And while we are delighted with what our team has accomplished, we have recently taken a step back to look at the launch and development of Torchlight III. Our internal teams have created thoughtful, but sometimes difficult post-mortems that will help guide us with future updates for Torchlight III. We understand that while many believe Torchlight III to be a great game, there are parts of it that have received critical, but fair feedback; we recognize that there is work to be done in several areas of the game to bring it up to a more polished level.

We won’t be able to completely placate all of the critiques in one patch, but as we move forward we are working on ways to simplify and better our internal process so that we can make better decisions for the community, the game, and for ourselves as a team.

In this Developer Update, we discuss the launch of Torchlight III, the recent 'Gear 'N' Goblins' patch, current community concerns, and reveal details about the upcoming 'Snow & Steam' update.

- Echtra Bean

Read the entire blog at https://www.torchlight3.com/en/news-article/11481183

This is a short description of the reptile class. Reptiles are the most powerful among the three creature classes. Their superior strength and high HP provide them a significant advantage in combat. On the other hand, they are the slowest monsters, and cold weather makes them somewhat weaker. However, lizards have some unique traits like the regeneration of health, poison bite, fire spit, static skin, and dragon breath.

Reptiles have the longest lifespan, they live up to 25-35 years, but their moderate resilience makes them more vulnerable to abomination illness. They grow slower than other creatures, do not tolerate cold and dry, and some species can not reproduce without water.

Yes, this is a big, not big, a huge step. This build, while for you it might not mean much, is the first build with the fully tested localization system. What does that mean? It means that from now on adding languages is going to be just a matter of producing the contents, and the game will fully support them out of the box. The first language, already included in this build, is Chinese, and it's the beginning of our collaboration with our Asian Partner: Whisper Games (that just to mention some, are taking care of the localization of Disco Elysium, Endzone, Wartile, Rising Lords, etc).



It's huge, isn't it? First language planned is Italian, already halfway ready. To follow, in order to be decided, its gonna be Portuguese, Greek, Russian, German, French, Spanish, Korean and Japanese.
We wanna make sure that by release time, all these will be available for the game. It's a huge effort, in production and costs, but we think that it was due!



Ah, and we also got some new promo art done by the legendary Giacomo!







That said, let's get onto a few of new fixes, that are always pleasant to show off!

• Fixed text layer position compared to background in Victory panels
  
• Added tooltip and specifications on Tributes UIs
  
• Fixed a bug that displayed Lumberjack research updates on the Quarry and Iron mine panel
  
• Fixed a UI bug that caused spritesheets bleeding into towers and buildings portraits
  
• Fixed missing fonts for the in-battle scout reports
  
• Fixed wrong mouse-over on Management and Luck on Heimer's panel
  
• Fixed post-riot impact on both Campaign (1 dialog and then automatic) and Sandbox (automatic)
  
• Fixed an issue with wrong keys to activate the battle cooldown abilities
  
• Fixed one bug with reinforcements being recalled but the modifiers persisting
  
• Fixed one bug with reinforcements being cancelled from the actions but not resetting the status in the sending province

That said, now that this is done, off to some new cool stuff that you will see in game VERY VERY Soon!!

Cheers,
Dr.H

In anticipation of our upcoming Operation: Cold Blood update, our Play with the Devs event is happening NOW from 11:00 AM MST - 12:00 PM MST on the Community Test Environment.

Help test upcoming content for Operation: Cold Blood on the Community Test Environment:

• New map: Bab
  
• Two new weapons (M110 SASS and M1 Garand)
  
• New Weapon Upgrades

To play with us, go to your Steam Library and download “Insurgency: Sandstorm Community Test Environment". Boot up the CTE, and please set matchmaking regions to US East. Click Play, select Co-op, select New Map: Bab, and Find Match. All of the devs won’t necessarily be in one game, but you’ll see us floating around your matches!

During the CTE, we will be restricting the playlists to focus solely on the new content.

Please note that all devs will have a DEV tag next to their name in-game. Anyone posing as a dev without the DEV tag is not an NWI developer.

After playing, please fill out our CTE survey. The only other place the team will be funneling feedback is on our Steam CTE Sub-Forum. Please ensure to use the search function in the Sub Forum to see if your feedback/question has already been posted, and stick to ONE topic per thread.

For more information on the CTE, please visit our frequently asked questions article here.


See you soon!

How would you like to earn bonus rewards for participating in activities around the Spiral you already enjoy? During the Spiral Showcase event, you can earn points to fill up your personal progress bar by fishing, training your pets, doing daily quests, crafting items, and helping others with the Team Up Kiosk!

As you fill up your personal progress bar, you’ll unlock special free rewards:

• Professor's Hoard Pack
  
• Treasure Cards from the Eye of Bartleby Pack
  
• Reagents from the Mega Reagent Pack
  
• Jewels from the Rockhammer’s Jewel Pack
  
• Mega Snacks
  
• And More!

More good news! Earning points in the Spiral Showcase will also earn you points towards your Scroll of Fortune progress for even more rewards.

This event begins on Tuesday, November 24th.

Check out the official Events Calendar for updates.

Ready Player Two, Ernest Cline’s highly anticipated sequel to his beloved worldwide bestseller Ready Player One, publishes in the U.S. and U.K. on November 24th and is expected to be the biggest fiction book of 2020.

Ernest Cline’s virtual book tour for Ready Player Two has been updated to include a virtual Q&A with Ernest Cline in Bigscreen, the premiere virtual reality destination for watching movies with your friends. Using virtual reality headsets, Bigscreen provides an immersive and social movie theater experience in the home. The Q&A with Cline and Darshan Shankar, the CEO and Founder of Bigscreen, will be streamed in Bigscreen on December 5th at 5PM Pacific (8PM Eastern). The event is open to audiences worldwide for free and requires the Bigscreen application (http://www.bigscreenvr.com) and a supported virtual reality headset.

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“In 2011 – before virtual reality headsets really existed – Ready Player One inspired us of what was possible with VR. People are now using Bigscreen as a classroom for virtual education, as a virtual movie theater, and even as a virtual date night for people in long-distance relationships: things Ernie Cline predicted a decade ago! I can’t wait to read Ready Player Two and get a glimpse of the future,” said Shankar.

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Cline said, "Bigscreen is by far my favorite VR application and it's also the one I've used the most this past year. I get together with my friends inside Bigscreen at least once a week to hang out, watch movies, and play games together, even though we're scattered across the country. I'm so grateful to Darshan and his team for turning something from my imagination into a reality, and for doing it decades before I thought it would be possible. And I'm honored that they've invited me to appear on their platform to discuss Ready Player Two."

In his 2011 blockbuster debut, Ready Player One, Ernest Cline imagined a near future where the world endured a pandemic and was in severe economic depression, so humanity escapes an inhospitable real world for the safety of a virtual universe called the Oasis. In the Oasis, people work, socialize, fall in love, play, and watch movies in dream locations, much like in Bigscreen. The cinematic and prescient novel was immediately embraced by readers, booksellers, and critics alike, with rave reviews in publications around the world. It went on to spend more than 100 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list (as well as becoming the first book ever to hit #1 on the Times’ hardcover, paperback, and audio lists), has been published in more than 50 countries around the world, and—among its numerous honors—was voted one of America’s 100 best loved books in PBS’ Great American Read.

In Ready Player Two, Cline takes readers on a new and wildly imaginative action-packed adventure through his beloved virtual universe, the Oasis, and jolts us thrillingly into the future once again. Ready Player Two is available for purchase at http://www.readyplayertwo.com

Another set of bug fixes you report to us. This time they may not be blocking the game, but they are very annoying. We realize that these are not all problems, but we will gradually solve them. There is still a lot of time until the premiere...

Decisions and story:

• Sashko now correctly changes his attitude if you changed your decisions in "A few things from an old hideout"
  
• Sashko will no longer react negatively to Igor for releasing Kostya from prison if Kostya died earlier
  
• Sashko now has no change in attitude due to the Ferris wheel crashing down if the player chose to kill Kozlov.
  
• “Checkpoint Assault” will no longer require player input every time you return to the Fractal Timeline
  
• If a player during "Big Fish" shoots down the helicopter, Mikhail should not leave the team. The decision influences and correctly scales with his loyalty.
  
• Olga should no longer be "lost" when we rescue her from prison.
  
• During Hack Nar Server, the decision was the opposite of what it should have been. We fixed it.

AI and combat:

• Soldiers should now react correctly to the death of an ally killed with a silenced weapon. When they hear the body fall, they will check it out, and when they see their ally die
  
• Weapons should now be properly filled with ammunition if it has a magazine other than the default.
  
• Bolderer's AI was created before EA started. It passed a deep update, which should solve many problems, such as correct path searching, using portals, problems with animations, or sensitivity to eyesight and hearing.

General:

• Event marker on the compass should now correctly change the transparency scale with distance.
  
• Fixed a collision on the passage that prevented you from entering one of the stashes behind the chernobylite wall in Pripyat Central
  
• High-tech equipment in Igor's room should now have the correct textures
  
• In some quests, an old placeholder was showing on TVs instead of Tarakan. We fixed it.
  
• Hermit we encountered on the related quest was very dark. We improved its lighting.
  
• Events with gas clouds should no longer spawn in sectors where the main quest is taking place.
  
• When entering the fractal world, the cutscene for putting on the helmet should always start correctly
  
• During training with Tarakan, it was possible to block yourself if we started a dialogue with him holding a weapon in our hand. We fixed it.
  
• We have fixed a very rare issue that was causing problems with sharpen postprocessing.
  
• Fixed issues with poor texture quality on some elevations.
  
• Fixed lighting issues during mission "Weapon Transport"

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